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 The SoFi Stadium's ETFE roof
provides a " fifth dimension " with
an LED system embedded into
the ETFE to project images and
show live events from inside the
stadium. These images can be
seen from the air by the more
than 80 million passengers
traveling through the Los
Angeles International Airport
annually without sacrificing the
transparency of the roof for fans
inside. Photo: HKS Inc.
New solutions
in solar shade
As temperatures increase,
textiles are being used in
innovative ways for their
protective and energyharvesting
potential.
by Marie O'Mahony
F
ROM THE EARLIEST TENTS TO CONTEMPORARY
athletic stadiums, textiles have played a central role in
offering protection from the elements and drawing energy
from the sun. As locations worldwide struggle with recordshattering
temperatures, researchers and architects are utilizing
textiles in groundbreaking innovations including a state-of-the-art
sports and entertainment stadium, a biomimicry-inspired pavilion
and a research project that explores harnessing wind energy via
tensile membrane architecture.
Indoor-outdoor experience
The SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., was designed by architects
HKS Inc. and uses a single layer of ETFE to provide a translucent
roof on the first indoor-outdoor NFL stadium. It is also the league's
largest stadium, measuring 3.1 million square feet, and needs to
perform a number of functions, not the least of which is providing
protection from the Southern California sunshine.
The roof is the largest of its kind, sitting on an arching steel truss
compression ring that supports a cable net truss and 302 ETFE
panels. " The ETFE roof is a signature design element that achieves
an outdoor setting while providing the flexibility of a domed
stadium, " says Lance Evans, principal and director of sports at HKS.
The roof structure is seismically isolated from the stadium
bowl. The cable net structure free-spans more than 1,000 feet
longitudinally and 800 feet tangentially, making it the largest,
heaviest and one of the highest cable pinning forces ever attempted,
according to contractor Pfeifer Structures of Dallas, Texas. To
reduce the cable loads, the upper and lower cable nets are divided
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